Safekeeping is only the beginning. A custody mandate must connect ownership records, settlement, cash, asset servicing, oversight and evidence without losing control between them.
Each appointment is defined by legal structure, jurisdiction, eligible assets, markets, service scope and reporting obligations. The operating model is agreed before assets or instructions are accepted.
Safekeeping01
Securities custody
Ownership records protected by disciplined operations.
The custody layer maintains the books and controls that connect an institutional mandate to the assets recorded for it.
Eligible assets and markets are established during onboarding. Settlement, reconciliation, entitlement and reporting workflows are then configured around the documented mandate and authorised instruction model.
Position and transaction recordkeeping
Delivery-versus-payment and receipt-versus-payment controls where available
Asset, cash and settlement reconciliation
Income entitlement and asset-servicing coordination
Operational cash aligned with settlement obligations.
Custody cash is administered as part of the mandate's operating cycle, not as an isolated treasury product.
Controls connect expected settlements, income events, authorised payments and available balances. Currency and liquidity arrangements remain subject to the agreed account structure, counterparties and market cut-offs.
Operational cash accounts in agreed mandate currencies
Settlement-liquidity and projected-balance monitoring
Instruction validation and dual-control workflows
Cash movements linked to settlements and asset events
Consolidated cash reporting by account and currency
Valuation, books and records brought into one control cycle.
Fund administration converts transactions, positions, prices, accruals and investor activity into controlled accounting records.
The precise operating calendar and deliverables are agreed for each vehicle. Exceptions are investigated through documented workflows before valuations or reports are released.
Fund accounting and valuation-cycle support
Position, transaction and cash reconciliation
Expense, fee and income-accrual administration
Investor and transfer-agency interfaces where mandated
Asset events translated into authorised decisions.
Event information must be captured, validated, communicated and acted upon within market deadlines and mandate authority.
Mandatory events, voluntary elections and income entitlements are linked to recorded positions. Client instructions and operational evidence are retained through the event lifecycle.
Event capture, validation and deadline control
Mandatory and voluntary action processing
Dividend, coupon and redemption administration
Meeting and proxy instructions where available
Tax-documentation and reclaim coordination subject to eligibility
Reporting that can be traced back to controlled records.
Reports are only as dependable as the source data, reconciliations, ownership and exception governance behind them.
Deliverables are configured to the mandate and applicable reporting obligations. Regulatory submissions, where included, remain subject to agreed responsibility, jurisdiction and data availability.
Position, cash, transaction and settlement reporting
Reporting calendars and source-data validation
Exception ownership and evidence retention
Client, board and oversight reporting packs
Regulatory outputs within the contracted service scope
Independent challenge supported by documented evidence.
Oversight appointments require separation between operational activity and the party responsible for reviewing it.
The precise duties depend on the legal vehicle and appointment. Monitoring, escalation and reporting are structured around the governing documents and applicable framework.
Independent cash-flow and asset-record oversight
Ownership and safekeeping-record checks
Investment-restriction monitoring where applicable
Documented breaches, escalation and remediation tracking
Periodic oversight evidence and governance reporting
Estimate an indicative annual custody charge based on assets under custody and the primary asset class. Final pricing is established after mandate scoping, due diligence and operating-model review.
Estimated Annual Fees
Custody fee
Administration fee
Total annual cost
Indicative pricing only. Actual fees remain subject to mandate scope, due diligence and service-agreement negotiation.
